Independent research fellowships
Please find below a list of funders and fellowship schemes considered to be Indipendent Research Fellowships.
Those asterisked support the transition to independence. Applicants should demonstrate readiness to become independent and the award enables them to become so. It could be argued those at the start of an award are not 'independent' yet, but those well in the award may be.
Independent research fellowships
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AHRC
AHRC Leadership Fellowships – Early Career Researchers
AHRC Leadership Fellowships
BBSRC
BBSRC David Phillips Fellowships
BBSRC Future Leader Fellowships (from 2018 known as BBSRC Discovery Fellowships)
British Academy
BA/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowships
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships
JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowships
Mid-Career Fellowships
Newton Advanced Fellowships
Newton International Fellowships
Wolfson Research Professorships
British Heart Foundation
Career Re-entry Research Fellowships
Clinical Research Leave Fellowships
BHF-Fulbright Commission Scholar Awards
Intermediate Basic Science Research Fellowships
Intermediate Clinical Research Fellowships
Senior Basic Science Research Fellowships
Senior Clinical Research Fellowships
Springboard Award for Biomedical Researchers
Starter Grants for Clinical Lecturers
Cancer Research UK
Advanced Clinician Scientist Fellowship
Career Development Fellowship
Career Establishment Award
Senior Cancer Research Fellowship
EPSRC
EPSRC Early Career Fellowship
EPSRC Established Career Fellowship
EPSRC Postdoctoral Fellowship*
ESRC
ESRC Future Cities Catapult Fellowship
ESRC Future Leaders Grant
ESRC/Turing Fellowships
ESRC/URKI
Early Career Researcher Innovation Fellowships
European Research Council
ERC Advanced Grants
ERC Consolidator Grants
ERC Starting Grants
Health Education England
ICA Clinical Lectureship
ICA Senior Clinical Lectureship
Imperial College London
Imperial College Research Fellowship (ICRF)
Chapman Fellowship
Safra UK DRI Fellowships
Leverhulme Trust
Early Career Fellowship
Research Fellowship
Emeritus Fellowship
Major Research Fellowship
International Academic Fellowship
MRC
MRC Career Development Awards*
MRC New Investigator Research Grants (Non-Clinical)*
MRC New Investigator Research Grants (Clinical)*
MRC Clinician Scientist Fellowships*
Senior Non-Clinical Fellowships
Senior Clinical Fellowships
NC3R
David Sainsbury Fellowship
Training fellowship
NERC
Independent Research Fellowships
NERC/UKRI
Industrial Innovation Fellowships
Industrial Mobility Fellowships
NIHR
Advanced Fellowship
Career Development Fellowship
Clinical Lectureships
Clinical Trials Fellowship
Clinician Scientist
Development and Skills Enhancement Award
Knowledge Mobilisation Research Fellowship
Post-Doctoral Fellowship
Research Professorship
School for Primary Care Post-Doctoral Fellowships
Senior Research Fellowship
Royal Academy of Engineering
RAEng Engineering for Development Research Fellowship
Industrial Fellowships
RAEng Research Fellowship
RAEng Senior Research Fellowship
UK Intelligence Community (IC) Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
Royal Society
Royal Society Wolfson Fellowship
Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship*
JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship
Newton Advanced Fellowship
Royal Society/Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship
University Research Fellowship*
Royal Society and Wellcome
Sir Henry Dale Fellowship*
Royal Society of Edinburgh
RSE Arts & Humanities Awards (for permanent staff)
RSE Personal Research Fellowship
RSE Sabbatical Research Grants (for permanent staff)
STFC
CERN Fellowships
Ernest Rutherford Fellowship
ESA Fellowships
Innovations Partnership Scheme Fellowships
Returner Fellowships
RSE/STFC Enterprise Fellowships
Rutherford International Fellowship Programme
Sêr Cymru
Research Chairs
Rising Stars
Recapturing Talent*
Research fellowships for 3 - 5 year postdocs
UKRI
UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships
UKRI Innovation Fellowships
Wellcome Trust
Intermediate Fellowship in Public Health and Tropical Medicine
Principal Research Fellowships
Research Award for Health Professionals
Research Career Development Fellowship
Research Fellowship in Humanities and Social
Senior Research Fellowship